diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index c81394ee31a41..e832c5738aaca 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -59,3 +59,6 @@
 [submodule "external/PicoSHA2"]
 	path = external/PicoSHA2
 	url = https://github.com/okdshin/PicoSHA2.git
+[submodule "external/DirectX-Headers"]
+	path = external/DirectX-Headers
+	url = https://github.com/microsoft/DirectX-Headers.git
diff --git a/cmake/TaichiCore.cmake b/cmake/TaichiCore.cmake
index 7478f03189038..c05cbec358876 100644
--- a/cmake/TaichiCore.cmake
+++ b/cmake/TaichiCore.cmake
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ if(TI_WITH_LLVM)
         add_subdirectory(taichi/runtime/dx12)
         add_subdirectory(taichi/codegen/dx12)
 
+        target_include_directories(${CORE_LIBRARY_NAME} PRIVATE external/DirectX-Headers/include)
         target_link_libraries(${CORE_LIBRARY_NAME} PRIVATE dx12_codegen)
         target_link_libraries(${CORE_LIBRARY_NAME} PRIVATE dx12_runtime)
     endif()
diff --git a/external/DirectX-Headers b/external/DirectX-Headers
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000000..fb9a40f1b8165
--- /dev/null
+++ b/external/DirectX-Headers
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit fb9a40f1b8165c848cf49fdb396722af7181ff97